Tim Blair

Tim Blair
–,
Monday,
November,
19,
2012,(5:07pm)

Leftists typically ruin everything they get their hands on, from education and public broadcasting to art and Eastern Europe.

The latest victim is poor little Twitter, an ingeniously simple online publishing platform that ought be the perfect place for normal people to express themselves in posts of 140 characters or fewer. Naturally, leftists in Australia and elsewhere have turned it into a witless sewer of defamatory slurs.

Tim Blair
–,
Monday,
November,
19,
2012,(3:08pm)

“A 4°C [warmer] world is likely to be one in which communities, cities and countries would experience severe disruptions, damage, and dislocation, with many of these risks spread unequally,” the report says.

“It is likely that the poor will suffer most …”

They should get better jobs, then. And World Bank president Jim Yong Kim should quit his:

Kim, a physician and former president of Dartmouth College who was tapped for the World Bank by US President Barack Obama, said that 97 per cent of scientists agreed that human activity was causing climate change.

“As someone who has lived in the world of science for a long time, 97 per cent is unheard-of consensus,” he said.